Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lesson. In Seattle, Al Collins took his wife to a golf course, took his stance to show her the correct form for driving from a tee, forthwith shot a hole...
...your figure of 50% was arrived at by including all Naval Reserve officers on active duty, it is probably nearly correct, although more likely on the high side, I think. BUT-Naval Reserve officers do not compete for selection for promotion against regular Navy officers, but only among themselves. Separate selection boards are designated to consider regulars and reserves...
...what the Oxford University Press has undertaken to do for Raphael. Its means is a new volume of its Phaidon series. The Paintings of Raphael ($4.50), just shipped to the U.S. (the present book of reproductions was published last winter in England). The prejudice which it seeks to correct has existed for many years among critics and criticasters in rebellion against the painter of the famous, widely and often ruinously reproduced Sistine Madonna...
...retailers are choked with goods; New York City department-store inventories for April were 77% above last year, while sales showed only a 4% increase. To correct the maldistribution, WPB announced it would soon curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...
...fact, Jaakko has most of the events doped out pretty well. He was correct in his plans of power in the field, where his charges gathered a husky 26 points, forming an important part of the 66 markers. This is, incidentally, not only the first time one university has won the crown three times, but also the largest total ever amassed by the victors...